Indiana Supreme Court

A father whose annual income included varying bonuses and commissions is obligated to provide child support payments in line
with evolving guidelines, despite a support agreement made a year earlier than the rules were revised, the Indiana Supreme
Court ruled.

When Lake Superior Court Judge John Sedia handed Indiana’s right-to-work law a pink slip, conventional wisdom held that
the Indiana Supreme Court would overturn that decision and put the law back to work.

A man whose 51 guns were ordered seized by a judge who determined him dangerous after his behavior alarmed Bloomington police
near the site where missing Indiana University student Lauren Spierer was last seen is asking the Indiana Supreme Court to
return his firearms.

Indianapolis attorney and blogger Paul K. Ogden should be suspended from the bar for a year without automatic reinstatement
for private communications criticizing a judge, the Indiana Disciplinary Commission recommended Monday.

A man’s conviction and 45-year sentence on a meth charge cannot stand because the police search at a rental storage
unit that led to his arrest violated his Fourth Amendment protections, a majority of the Indiana Supreme Court ruled.

United Parcel Service and its reinsurance affiliates are obligated to pay about $650,000 in taxes from the years 2000 and
2001, the Indiana Tax Court held. The court previously ruled in UPS’s favor, but this opinion comes on remand from an
Indiana Supreme Court reversal.

The first meeting of the committee created by the Legislature to oversee the Indiana Supreme Court’s technology initiatives
– chief among them continued implementation of the Odyssey case management system – will take place Tuesday morning.

Although a man’s conviction was overturned, the Indiana Supreme Court has ruled he can still be retried on the same
charge without violating double jeopardy prohibitions because “a rational jury” would have considered more than
one element of the crime.

A Marion Superior judge facing a 45-count disciplinary complaint responded today to a petition for her suspension by saying,
“She is resolute that she can and will learn from what has been alleged, and that she will redouble her efforts to proceed.”

A controversial, politically charged power plant proposal voided by an appellate court and later waylaid by the General Assembly
and Gov. Mike Pence landed before the Indiana Supreme Court Sept. 5. Attorneys for and against the proposed plant pleaded
that terms of the contract were on their side.

Whether state law allows a criminal defendant to receive a partial consecutive sentence may be determined by the Indiana Supreme
Court, which agreed to hear a case successfully argued by a pro se litigant to the Indiana Court of Appeals.

One of the National Law Journal’s 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America will be before the Indiana Supreme
Court this week to argue on behalf of a blogger convicted and sentenced for intimidating a Dearborn County judge who revoked
the man’s joint custody of his children.

A man condemned for the 1997 rape and murder of an 18-year-old Franklin College student is entitled to a new avenue of post-conviction
relief on his argument that he is not mentally competent to be executed, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

A divided Indiana Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a man convicted of rape on retrial was unconstitutionally prosecuted
twice for the same offense, but the court upheld denial of post-conviction relief.